Mevlut Cavusoglu

Mevlut Cavusoglu (5 February 1968-) was Foreign Minister of Turkey from 29 August 2014 to 28 August 2015, succeeding Ahmed Davutoglu and preceding Feridun Sinirlioglu, and again from 24 November 2015, succeeding Sinirlioglu.

Biography
Mevlut Cavusoglu was born in Alanya, Turkey on 5 February 1968, and he graduated from Ankara University in 1988. He later went to Long Island University and Bilkent University, becoming a research fellow at the London School of Economics and President of the Turkish Society. Cavusoglu served in the Grand National Assembly from 2002 onwards, representing Antalya as a member of the Justice and Development Party. From 2010 to 2012, he served as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and he served as Foreign Minister from 2014 onwards, with a three-month interruption in late 2015.